Happy New Year!

Good morning and welcome to episode 109 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast in New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach

California, you are Sam Miller. We are one episode away from finishing the week

on a multiple of five but we didn't do it because we took boxing day off and now

I don't know when we'll do it. Probably never. Well what are we gonna yeah well

let's see we we're doing three next week is that right? Yes. So what what episode is

this? 109. So then we'll be 112 and so then Martin Luther Kingdale come along

and we won you know 116 essentially and then Presidents Day we'll get us to

to one to to an even number so mid-February we should hit it. So I have

something to look forward to. We don't celebrate two Presidents days anymore

do we? It's just the one. I think so yeah. So and then then we're good right

because there's nothing in March and there's nothing in well there's nothing in

April unless we take a day off for Easter and so we might actually make it

until from from mid February till the end of May this might be the best thing for

those will be the days. All right now you have something to live for. I meant but it

is the last of the year. Yes. We're not ending we're not ending the year on

a round number. No. I meant to ask you you tweeted the other day a picture of

your Christmas present and it was it was a piglet. It was it was it it was a

piglet you explained. I got a piglet. I want my parents have enough land up in

Northern California that they have room to raise animals and they raise sheep

and they have geese and chickens and goats and when I was a kid we would

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